The Electric EGI Ski Goggles are popular snow goggles available in a unisex one size fits all model.

“Seeing well” for an athlete means optimizing the qualities of vision in relation to the velocity of movements. Performances are achieved by pushing reactivity of excess. It is crucial for the athlete to make coordinated and rhythmical movements to perceive the irregularities of the slope or course without hesitation.

No skier can make secure judgments in advance of the obstacles or course poles without clear, undistorted vision. The world’s leading manufacturers in ski goggles and snow ski eyewear provide you with the best possible protection and most technologically advanced lens designs.

With manufacturers like Oakley and Bolle, you can find eyewear for those who love the freedom of skiing. Bolle snow goggles offer a technology like no other. The trademarked Equalizer lens and ventilation system offers one of the best snow goggles on the market. The Gore-All weather vent equalizes air pressure between the lenses, without introducing moisture, so you get distortion-free vision at any altitude.

Selecting Goggles for Skiing and Snowboarding
At high altitudes, it is especially critical that your eyewear protect you from ultraviolet radiation, of which up to 85% can be reflected off snow. This means you need sunglasses or goggles in both sunny and overcast conditions. Snow blindness is a sunburn on the surface of the eye and the most common skiing injury that optometrists treat.

Skiing without goggles, regardless of weather conditions, increases exposure to UV rays, which puts people at risk of cataracts and macular degeneration, the number one cause of blindness in seniors.

People don’t usually think about the potential for eye injuries but they can happen. If you take a bad fall while wearing inappropriate eyewear, the lenses can break and cut your eyes; if you aren’t wearing any eyewear at all, a low branch can do serious damage to your eyes.

Goggles
If you prefer to wear a goggle, use the same lens color guidelines. Make sure the goggle is well ventilated to prevent fogging. Goggles should fit properly and comfortably and should be tinted in accordance to weather conditions, for additional safety.

A good all purpose tint is gray, with or without a mirror. For hazy conditions choose cinnamon, or amber. And for foggy days a vermilion or yellow tint helps to enhance what you see. Goggles with interchangeable lenses are good options for people who want to be well prepared.

Frames
We recommend a plastic frame since these hold up much better in the cold. Metal frames become brittle in the cold and may break. Wraps are very popular since they protect your eyes from wind and snow, which is especially important for contact lens wearers. They also help block out incidental light from the sides, helping to minimize glare.

Lenses
Most importantly, the sunglasses/goggles should offer 100% UV protection. Since glare increases on surfaces such as snow and regular sun lenses do not provide adequate absorption of glare, you may want to consider polarized lenses which absorb 98% of the glare so you don’t need to squint.

Please Note: Polarized lenses absorb so much glare that you may not be able to distinguish patches of ice from regular snow. You also may want to consider a photochromatic lens, which will lighten or darken according to the amount of light, getting darker in bright sunlight, and lighter in an overcast sky.

Polycarbonate lenses are highly recommended because of their impact resistance. Polycarbonate is also more fog resist than any other lens. Plastic provides adequate protection but can still shatter. Avoid glass lenses if at all possible. When skiing in bright sunlight, you should wear a sun lens. A brown or amber lens will provide the best contrast against a white background and works well for lower light conditions (i.e. when the sun goes behind the clouds).

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Leader Phoenix II Racquetball Eyewear features optically correct lenses to eliminate distortion and enhanced peripheral vision.

Protective sports eyewear should be a requirement for almost anyone who wants to pick up a ball, bat, racquet or stick, whether their sport involves contact or not.

As more and more athletic clubs and organizations realize the danger to the eyes involved in many activities they are requiring the use of protective eyewear.

Little League organizations are no exception. Kids can be resistant to the idea of “looking funny” while they play, but sports goggles are quickly becoming an accepted part of society, much as bike helmets have become the norm. And for good reason: according to the National Society to Prevent Blindness, of the 100,000 eye injuries sustained each year, the largest number are attributed to school-age athletes.

Even non-contact sports, such as badminton, hold inherent dangers to the eyes. Any sport in which balls, racquets or flying objects are involved poses a potential for eye injury because of the high rate of speed at which the objects travel.

Although they may seem to take place at a leisurely pace, racquetball, tennis and badminton can involve objects moving at 60 miles per hour (mph) and faster. A racquetball, for example, can travel between 60 and 200 mph during a game. Racquetball poses an additional danger when the racquets make contact with each other in a confined space while moving at high speed.

Beyond the objects involved in various athletic pursuits, many eye injuries are caused by pokes and jabs by fingers and elbows, particularly in games where players come into close contact with each other. Basketball and soccer, for example, have an extremely high rate of eye injury.

Sports eyewear that offers maximum protection is available in both prescription and nonprescription styles. The frames are constructed of highly impact-resistant plastic (Grilamid for example) or polycarbonate, and most have rubber padding that cushions the sides of the frame where they come into contact with the head, as well as in the nose area.

Lenses made for sports eyewear must be made of polycarbonate in order to meet industry requirements for safety. Polycarbonate is the most impact-resistant lens material, and it is effective at protecting the eye from fast-moving objects. Polycarbonate lenses may also have built-in ultraviolet protection and scratch-resistant properties — pluses for outdoor sports.

Some nonprescription sports styles are contoured, wrapping around the face, which protect the eyes from the wind as well as flying debris. These goggles are excellent for biking, hang-gliding, and sailing. Contact lens wearers especially benefit from the wraparound style.

Most sports goggles are more square in shape, however, offering strong protection around the eye. Goggles of this type can accommodate polycarbonate prescription lenses.

It is important that goggles be fitted correctly for each wearer. Proper fitting is not a huge challenge for adults, but when it comes to children, there is a temptation to purchase a goggle that is much too large in order to give the child “room to grow.” A small amount of growing room is acceptable, and sports goggles are made to be a bit flexible in terms of width adjustment. However, if the frame is much too large, the sides of the goggle wind up pressing against the soft flesh of the temples. Allowing the goggle to rest at this point can pose a danger to the child under impact.

Allowing a youngster to continue wearing a goggle that is too small likewise poses problems. First, it’s uncomfortable, and second, it will obstruct peripheral vision. Proper fitting means that the padding inside the goggle’s sides rests flush with the face and that the eyes are centered vertically in the lens area.

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